3,521 resources found
Dataset: Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO) - full database, Jun. 2020
GISCO (Geographic Information System of the COmmission) is responsible for meeting the European Commission's geographical information needs at three levels: the European Union, its member countries, and its regions. In addition to creating statistical and other thematic maps, GISCO manages a database of geographical information, and provides related services to the Commission. Its database contain ... (read more)
Dataset: Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO) - full database, Jul. 2018
GISCO (Geographic Information System of the COmmission) is responsible for meeting the European Commission's geographical information needs at three levels: the European Union, its member countries, and its regions. In addition to creating statistical and other thematic maps, GISCO manages a database of geographical information, and provides related services to the Commission. Its database contain ... (read more)
Dataset: Economic losses from climate-related extremes in Europe (1980-2023), ver. 1.0, 2024
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This metadata considers the 2023 data including the year 2010 Euro equivalent values as a baseline on total and insured economic losses and the number of fatalities from weather- and climate-related events in EU Member States and EEA member countries since 1980. Weather- and climate-related hazards considered are those types classified as meteorological hazards (e.g. storms), hydrological hazards ... (read more)
Dataset: EEA reference grid for Croatia (1km), May 2013
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The grid is based on proposal at the 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids in 2003 and later INSPIRE geographical grid systems. The sample grid available here is part of a set of three polygon grids in 1, 10 and 100 kilometres. The grids cover at least country borders and, where applicable, marine Exclusive Economic Zones v7.0, http://www.marineregions.org. Note that the extent of the grid into ... (read more)
Dataset: Riparian Zones 2012 Land Cover and Land Use (vector), Jul. 2019
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
Riparian zones represent transitional areas occurring between land and freshwater ecosystems, characterised by distinctive hydrology, soil and biotic conditions and strongly influenced by the stream water. They provide a wide range of riparian functions (e.g. chemical filtration, flood control, bank stabilization, aquatic life and riparian wildlife support, etc.) and ecosystem services. The Ripari ... (read more)
Dataset: Europe's Seas - version 1, Dec. 2018
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
In the Marine Strategy Framework Directive - MSFD (Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy), four marine regions are listed (Article 4): Baltic Sea, North-east Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, among which the following two are further divided into ... (read more)
Dataset: European Ground Motion Service: Calibrated 2019-2023 (vector), Europe, yearly, Oct. 2024
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
The European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) is a component of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. EGMS provides consistent, regular, standardised, harmonised and reliable information regarding natural and anthropogenic ground motion phenomena over the Copernicus Participating States and across national borders, with millimetre accuracy. This set of metadata describes the second product level of ... (read more)
Dataset: Environmental zones 2018 - version 1.0, June 2020
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This dataset is based on the Environmental Stratification of Europe (EnS) dataset from the University of Edinburgh, a statistically derived land classification which provides a novel global spatial framework for the integration and analysis of ecological and environmental data (Metzger, Marc J. 2018). It provides a robust spatial analytical framework for the aggregation of local observations, iden ... (read more)
Dataset: HRL Grasslands
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
High Resolution Layer Grasslands products map the location and size of permanent and temporary grasslands, in addition to providing information on mowing events across the EEA38. These products are all offered at high resolution and include annual status layers. Change layers are also available, showing grassland vegetation gain and loss in 3-yearly updates. The products are designed to be used by ... (read more)
Dataset: Grassland Change 2018-2021 (raster 20m), Europe, 3-yearly, Nov. 2024
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
The High Resolution Layer Grassland Change (GRAC) 2018-2021 raster product at 20m resolution provides information on changes in grassland vegetation cover between the reference years 2018 and 2021. The thematic classes indicate all non-grassland areas, grassland gain and grassland loss, unchanged grassland in both years and unverified grassland gain and loss areas. This dataset is provided in 20 m ... (read more)
Dataset: Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, Treatment plants reported under UWWTD data call 2023 - PROVISIONAL INTERNAL VERSION, Dec. 2024 (Spatial data)
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
UWWTD Treatment Plants, Dec. 2024 is one of the datasets produced within the frame of the reporting under 13th UWWTD Art.15 reporting period (UWWTD data call 2023). The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) (91/271/EEC) obliges Member States to report data on the implementation of the Directive upon request from the European Commission bi-annually. Reported data include receiving areas as ... (read more)
Dataset: Pan-European Very High Resolution Image Mosaic 2012 - True Colour (2,5 m), June 2015
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
The pan-European Very High Resolution (VHR) Image Mosaic 2012 provides optical VHR2 (Very High Resolution: > 1m and <= 4m) coverage over Europe. The surface covered by the image dataset is 7,3 million square kilometres and has a spatial resolution of 2,5 m. The acquisition window of the imagery is January 2011 to December 2013. Images are derived from the following satellite sensors: • SPOT-5 at 2 ... (read more)
Dataset: Natura 2000 (vector) - version 2018, Apr. 2019
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
Natura 2000 is an ecological network composed of sites designated under the Birds Directive (Special Protection Areas, SPAs) and the Habitats Directive (Sites of Community Importance, SCIs, and Special Areas of Conservation, SACs). The European database on Natura 2000 sites consists of a compilation of the data submitted by Member States to the European Commission. This European database is genera ... (read more)
Dataset: Water exploitation index, plus (WEI+), (2000-2022)
An indicator comparing water use versus renewable freshwater resources as percentage in a given area and time resolution e.g. annual water scarcity at country level.
Dataset: HRL Water and Wetness
The High Resolution Layer Water and Wetness provides information about the presence and condition of water and wet surfaces at the pan-European level. It shows the occurrence of water and wet surfaces over a period of seven years and includes four classes: permanent water, temporary water, permanent wetness, and temporary wetness. The product is provided in high resolution for the 2015 and 2018 re ... (read more)
Dataset: Approximated estimates for the share of gross final consumption of renewable energy sources, 2023
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency
The EU formally adopted an update of the Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2018/2001 in October 2023 that, among other measures, increases the binding 2030 target from 32% to 42.5%, with the aim of achieving 45%. Since early access to the most recent information on the growth of RES is relevant for all stakeholders, the EEA and its European Topic Centre for Climate Change Mitigation and Energy (ETC/ ... (read more)
Dataset: Copper (Cu) concentration in topsoils, Sep. 2007
Maps of estimated total copper concentrations in soils using 1588 geo-referenced topsoil samples from the FOREGS Geochemical database. The concentrations were interpolated using block regression-kriging over the 26 European countries that contributed to the database. Heavy metal contents are expressed in mg kg-1. This metadata record is adapted from the orginal one received from JRC.
Dataset: Marine waters used in Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) - INTERNAL - version 2.0, Oct. 2022
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This is the second release of a dataset showing the spatial extent of the EU marine waters used for implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008/56/EC), based on data submitted by the Member States to the European Commission. The MSFD applies to all marine waters of EU Member States, which in Article 3 are defined as follows: (a) waters, the seabed and subsoil on the seawa ... (read more)
Dataset: EUNIS habitat suitability - modelled distribution (spatial data)
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This series of metadata describes the potential habitat suitability maps for the following EUNIS habitat types: MA - Littoral biogenic habitat types (salt marshes) N - Coastal habitat types Q - Wetlands habitat types R - Grassland and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens habitat types S - Heathland, scrub and tundra habitat types T - Forest and other wooded land habitat types U - Inland hab ... (read more)
Dataset: EEA reference grid for Norway (100km), May 2011
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The grid is based on proposal at the 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids in 2003 and later INSPIRE geographical grid systems. The sample grid available here is part of a set of three polygon grids in 1, 10 and 100 kilometres. The grids cover at least country borders and, where applicable, marine Exclusive Economic Zones v2.0, http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound. Note that the extent of the g ... (read more)